Three Distinct Regions

Topics

• Slavery
• Life in the South
• Plantation System
• Life in the North
• Northern Immigration
• Factory System
• Life in the West
• American System
• Monroe Doctrine
• Mountain Men
• Missouri Compromise
• Indian Removal
• Second Great Awakening
• Reforms in education, health, prisons
• Women's Rights
• Temperance
• Trade Unions
• Capitalism
• Manifest Destiny
• Western Trails
• War with Mexico
• Gold Rush

Essential Questions

• Why did the economies and cultures of the Northern and Southern colonies/states develop so differently?
• How did the Industrial Revolution change the Northern states?
• How did America grow to cover the width of North America?
• What were the causes, conditions, and outcomes of the War with Mexico?
• Describe the cultural environment in which so many reforms, such as temperance and health reform, started?
• Was slavery the cause of White racism, or a result of it?

Resources

• Can we find Andrew Burnaby's description from 1760?
• Full text of Alexis DeTocqueville's Democracy in America from 1831
• eMedia has videos about the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. 30 minutes each, basic overviews, but not thrilling.